Herschel Walker denies 2nd woman's claim that he paid for her abortion: 'Lie' - ABC News

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Georgia Senate campaigner Herschel Walker connected Wednesday denied an unnamed woman's caller assertion that successful Dallas 1993 helium paid for and powerfully encouraged her to person an termination that she did not want.

The woman, lone identified arsenic Jane Doe, made her accusation astatine a video quality league hosted from Los Angeles by her attorney, Gloria Allred. The pistillate was not shown connected camera and said that she feared reprisal if she revealed her existent sanction oregon her face.

In a connection issued aboriginal Wednesday, Walker said, "I'm done with this foolishness. This is each a lie, and I volition not entertain immoderate of it."

"I besides did not termination JFK. This is pitiful," helium added. "The media should not beryllium truthful foolish arsenic to deliberation I volition walk immoderate clip talking astir these lies."

That connection echoed 1 helium gave earlier Wednesday, soon earlier the woman's quality conference. A newsman asked him past if helium wanted to "unequivocally deny" paying immoderate women for abortions, but helium did not answer.

Walker previously denied an ex-girlfriend's claim to assorted quality outlets that helium paid for her to person an termination successful 2009. That pistillate told The Daily Beast that she had documents supporting her allegation: a receipt from an termination clinic, a slope deposit receipt with an representation of a $700 cheque that she said was signed by Walker sent wrong a week of the termination and besides a "get well" paper that she said was signed by Walker.

ABC News has not independently confirmed either woman's claim.

 Georgia Republican Senatorial campaigner  Herschel Walker speaks astatine  a run  lawsuit    successful  Carrollton, Ga., Oct. 11, 2022.

Georgia Republican Senatorial campaigner Herschel Walker speaks astatine a run lawsuit successful Carrollton, Ga., Oct. 11, 2022.

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Walker is running against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock arsenic staunchly anti-abortion rights.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has been campaigning with Walker, besides issued a connection connected Wednesday supporting him and labeling Allred, the woman's attorney, an "activist" and a Democrat.

Graham and Walker suggested the caller allegation was a coordinated governmental onslaught to upend a contention that has besides focused connected nationalist information and the system arsenic good arsenic termination rights.

Leading Republicans including erstwhile President Donald Trump have rallied astir Walker, citing his denials.

"Democrats volition accidental and bash thing to bent connected to power. Well, I'm Herschel Walker, and they picked the incorrect Georgian to messiness with. I'm not backing down the stakes are excessively high," Walker said successful his statement.

The caller woman's allegations

The unnamed pistillate who spoke astatine the video quality league with Allred said that successful April 1993, she became large aft having been intimate with Walker.

"After discussing the gestation with Herschel respective times, helium encouraged maine to person an termination and gave maine the wealth to bash so," the pistillate claimed.

 An insect flies implicit    the caput  of U.S. Senate campaigner  and erstwhile  shot   subordinate    Herschel Walker arsenic  helium  speaks astatine  a run  rally successful  Columbus, Ga., Oct. 21, 2022.

An insect flies implicit the caput of U.S. Senate campaigner and erstwhile shot subordinate Herschel Walker arsenic helium speaks astatine a run rally successful Columbus, Ga., Oct. 21, 2022.

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She said she past went for the process successful Dallas but did not spell done with it. She said Walker allegedly pressured her, though, and yet drove her backmost to the termination session the adjacent time and waited extracurricular until it was done, past drove her to a pharmacy for medication.

The pistillate did not supply immoderate documentation successful enactment of her alleged abortion.

Warnock's effect to Walker termination claim

In a connection connected Wednesday, Warnock's lawman run manager, Rachel Petri, said that "we cognize Herschel Walker has a occupation with the truth, a occupation answering questions, and a occupation taking work for his actions."

"Today's caller study is conscionable the latest illustration of a troubling signifier we person seen play retired again and again and again. Herschel Walker shouldn't beryllium representing Georgians successful the U.S. Senate," Petri said.

Earlier this month, Warnock commented connected the archetypal woman's termination assertion against Walker.

He said then, astatine a run event, that "what we're proceeding astir my hostile is disturbing. I deliberation the radical of Georgia person a existent prime astir who they deliberation is acceptable to correspond them successful the United States Senate."

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